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POT SEINE Filed Feb. 23. 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 ngvENToR au/s Han/fea Q Q Q ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 24,1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. v

LOUIS HANKEN, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

Por SEINE;

Application filed February 23, 1927. Serial No. 170,150.

acter which is constructed and arranged so as to be readily stowed upon the deck of a boat for'transporting to and from the fishing place. v c

More specific objects vand advantages of the invention .will appear inthe following description.

The invention consists of fishing apparatus having a fish-pot including a pot netting suspended from a collapsible floatative frame; a seine comprising two walls of netting extending in diverging directions from the fish-pot; and hauling cables connected to the pot frame and supporting the seine walls so that in the forward travel of the apparatus fish will be collected by the seine and thence guided by the latter into the pot.

The invention further consists in the novel construction, adaptation and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings,-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of apparatus embodying the presentl invention, parts of the seine leads being broken away. Fig. 2 is a plan view, shown somewhat diagrammatically, illustrating the manner of using the invention. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section taken through the pot and including a portion of the seine." Fig. 4 is a fragmentary longitudinal section of the pot frame. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary rear-end elevation of the pot.

In carrying out the invention I provide a pot, indicated generally by the letter P, having walls of netting which depend from a collapsible buoyant frame F.

Said frame is of a truss construction comprising two transversely arranged timbers, or logs, 10 and 11 heldin parallel relation with each other by means of timber braces 12 disposed in inclined relation with respect to said logs so as to produce a rigid frame.

As shown the said logs are formed with plane upper surfaces 13 upon which the braces 12 seat. The braces are connected to the logs by means of headed screw bolts 14 and 141, extendingy vertically through both the logs and braces, and nuts 15 and 151 engaging the screw threads of the respective bolts.

To prevent the boltheads from fouling with the netting, the bolt heads 16, 161 (Fig. 4) are housed in recesses 17, 171 rovided in the undersides of the respective ogs. y

The bolts are, moreover, secured against accidental withdrawal from the logs by providing recesses 18, 181 in the upper-sides of the lOgsto-receive nuts 19and 191 which are screwed down upon the bolt threads and yagainst the bottoms of the respective recesses, to be entirely below. the log surfaces 13 upon which the braces 12 are seated. By such an arrangement, the bolts provide stud portions which protrudeabove thelogs to engage in holes provided therefory in the respective braces 12.`

When collapsing the frame, the nuts 151 are retracted a short distance and the nuts 15 withdrawn from the bolt-s 14, after which the braces are disconnected from the bolts 14 and thereupon are swung about the bolts 141 as pivots to arrange the braces parallel with the log 11 and over the same, permitting the members of the frame to be loaded upon the deck of a boat.

The pot netting is of a substantially rectangular shape, having front and back walls 2O and 21 which are secured along their top edges to the logs 10 and 11 respectively, side walls 22 extending between said front and back logs, and a ioor 23 which is bounded by thevertical walls. f

The side walls 22 are desirably provided at their lower edges with sinkers 24;y the front and back walls having their lower edges connected to metal bars or pipes 25 and 26, respectively. l

At each side of the pot is a cable 27 which passes through eye-attachments 28 of the pipes 25and 26and thence extends upwardly to'have the cable ends secured to the frame logs 10 and 11. Raising the pot-net'- ting is accomplished `from either of the frame logs `by simultaneously pulling up- Wardly the portions of the cables which are loro connected thereto, afterwards belaying the slack portions of the cables about the ends of the log. The to edge of each side wall 22 is desirably rein orced by a rope 29 carrying cork -or other floatative bodies 30. At or about its midwidth, the front netting wall 20 of the pot is provided lwith Van opening through which projects into the .central portion of the pot, a tunnel ot' nettinghavilig relatively converging .side walls 3l Iand .a floor 32.

At its eXit end, the side walls 3l ofthe tunnel are held in spaced apart relation by rods 33 (Fig. l) and `whichrods tare made tast to guy ropes 3ft extending 'liroin the traine logy llnand pipezQG, respectively.

' Connected to the: .pot traine :arel cables which vextend forwardly to `.besecured .to poweraboats f2) whereby-the.potis towed together witn the seine leads 37 which depend froni-ltl-ie.respective','cables 3F. flor supportingthe useine leads 37, the cables above the saine aieprovidedwith ay plurality of cork` oimo'therioatative bodies, which. are indicatedbyE in zlligs. Land. ,The lower edgesof the-lead .nettings .are-secured to cables -39 which havetheir forward ends se- Guredasat 40 (Fig. 2) tok the towing cables 35, .and-.theirfrear :ends extenties at .391 into the pot and constitute .tlie corner connections between chef tunneltloor. :in dfthe side walls.

,The towingcables 35, iii likey inanner, rare advantageously extended-into tlie'pot as Vat 351 to provide top supporting eleinents of the respectiveside walls :of the tunnel. 4l represents a. floor of netting connecting the seineA leads and n'iayf be' made .as annextension otrthe ,tunnel floor, that `iste say, integral 1 therewith. Y

Tliislnettingof theiiooiuLlland the seine leads v.gi'fai'e held down ,by ineans ot' sinkeis 42 applied'to the cables :39 as .shown ini'Fi gs. l and.

,.Theitow cables 35 are securedrinost advantageously to the pot ran'iefbygpassing the cablesvas coils 43 abo-utlthe. freine log nieinber il0 and dri-ving :staples lllover the cables into the log. `Additional Y:securing means 'iior the pot 'traine is provided by branch cables l5 extending from `the ends of loglO to the cables 35,.thiis .distributing'the stresses diie to towing throughout the entire width or' `the pot.

In operation; the .power boats are connected to the cables i35 to retain .the latter and the associated seine .leads in .1 approximately the positions in which they 1are represented in vFig. 2, so-t-hatish gathered in thespaee between the seineilead willfbe. directedinto thelpot to be iinpounded therein. JThe-'iisli may be removed from the potfby brailingor by :raising vthe pot netting. 'il/Vlien lnot Iin usexand tor convenience intransporting the trap the :saine inay` be carried in` its .collapsed condition upon `one of thev power boats. VThe manner-'rot .construction V4andoperating the invention will be understood frointhe foregoiiig description.

What claim, is,- VLln fishing apparatus of the character described7 a pot comprising netting Supported-by collapsible buoyant frame, said :traine consisting et' two transverse members held `in .parallel spacednpart irelationiby brace ineinbers extending :troni.tlievfcentral described, a pot comprising netting` support ed by la collapsible buoyant iframe, asald 'traine consisting. of :two transverse members held in parallel spaced apart relation dbybrace .ineinbers extending .from ithezicentral portion oit .the torward ,offsaid ynienibers 'to wit-l iin close; proximity Withg'tfhe endsooif the other or' said. nieinbers, towing .cablesisecured to. said toi-ward; member, seine-leads depend ing trein the respectivetowing:cablesand tending into vther-pot to 'constitiite side :malls ot'aa tunnel, and floor .nettingeonnectirig-..the lower edges of the seine .leads both .inside and outside. of tliepot. y

3. ln i iisliin g apparatus .of the character described, fa iloatative -potfraine:comprisingl two timbers disposed :in substantially lparallel relation'transversely ,of ;tle;p.ot, two timbers .disposed longitudinallyio' this pot and in inclined. :relation with respect;l to leach other and :to `the Atransverse 1timbers,;=said transverse timbers i .being .provided iivith: fiat seating surfaces for the longitudinal bers, screw threaded bolts rigidly .secured to `the `transverse ptiinbers and -e-ngageable with thelongitudinalstimbers, and ^vinits..=co

operating with 'sairdl .bolts forI detaclialjlyfsa curing ifthe longitudinal Vtimbers :to ifthe' transverse timbers, and alsob'servingfito:piv-- otally connect the Vlongitudinal -ftintibers `to one et the transverse timbers.

f Signed .at Seattle, llVashi-ngton', this 4th day of January, 11927.

Louis .-HiiNKEN. 

